What’s up
-- Barbara Diamond
WHAT:
Vision Laguna
WHAT’S BEHIND IT:
More than 2,000 people and 100 civic groups responded to the City
Council’s call for community participation Vision Laguna, a two-year
process to determine what the residents and community wanted the city to
look like and represent in 2030. The Vision Laguna 2030 Final Report and
Strategic Plan is the distillation of countless hours those folks spent
wrestling with present and future issues such as the community character,
traffic and circulation, environmental responsibility, arts and culture,
economic sustainability, government and civic participation. The report
was presented to the City Council in January. Copies are available at
City Hall.
WHAT NOW:
In April, the council asked the Vision Laguna Steering Committee, the
members of which were appointed by the council, to take one more step: a
final version of the final report, streamlining it. Some committee
members oppose the notion, believing that every word should be retained.
The committee appointed Melissa O’Neal and John Thomas to a
subcommittee to take the first crack at the task.
WHAT’S SAID:
“The council requested that the steering committee arrange the 51
proposals and recommendations into a document that provides a relatively
clear vision of what is contained in the final report,” said Fred Droz,
chair of the committee.
To this end, the Vision Laguna 2030 Steering Committee is working on
the following tasks:
* Identify any duplication of recommendations and projects.
* List the projects in the following manner
- What has been accomplished since the initiation of the vision
project
- What is now in progress
- What is yet to be done
* Group the recommendations by the following categories:
- Public sector projects
- Private sector projects
- Public and private sector partnerships.’
WHAT’S NEXT:
The subcommittee’s first draft will go to the entire steering
committee within the next month for review, Droz said. When approved, the
streamlined version will be presented to the City Council for
consideration.
Anyone interested in the process or the subsequent implementation
phase, can e-mail o7 fred.groz@thedrozgroup.comf7 or call City Hall
staff member Jamie Pendleton at 497-0344.
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